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I can see em fine- holy cow, I WAS RIGHT! WOOT! Um, really, It must say bad things about me how excited I am for this danger?
Also, first panal totally made my heart melt. Nicole and Dan’s relationship reminds me of my boyfriend, who is currently out of the country ( for another 22 months!) They are adorable together. 😀

I find it strange that the streetlights are crating a shadow on the car below.
The shadow looks like the lamp is made of 4 glass panels with support in the corners (the support is creating the shadows) but the lamp doesn’t look like that. It looks more like a round glass with no support …

Wraiths can apparently cross the dimensional barrier and invisibly spy on humans. They did that with Arthur, and then with Dan. If these are more Nightmare Realm creatures, they may have the same ability. And there’s not much doubt Nicodemus is around somewhere, but Nic was just a sub-Boss; Abaddon is the main Boss, and he’s still the ruler of the N.R…

We’ve seen the wraiths manifest themselves on Earth before, but I think this is the first time we’ve seen regular Nightmare Realm monsters present. This of course opens a MASSIVE can of worms over what kinds of monsters the Nightmare Realm has sent to Earth in the past. (Cthulhu much?)

Yeah, definitely apparent that they’re supposed to be something menacing. It’s actually kinda cool have just the monotone models like that. They still look evil, yet are clearly not supposed to be in this world.

This seems like a Friday cliffhanger kind of page. Ergo, it must actually be Friday. I can only assume that means my calendar here is wrong. This will be my excuse for not showing up to work for the next two days.

Maybe it’s just me, but I could not figure out what I was looking at in the last panel without reading the author’s notes. Even then it still looks like the back of the lower legs of someone wearing wrinkled camo pants standing on Nicole’s roof. Jsut sayin’.

What type of camo pants are you wearing then? I distinctly see a pair of round lower skull areas. I also see two ears on one, not to mention the jawline of the other. Also, where do you see legs? I see the tops of heads and some thing that looks like horns and then the outside of the window above their heads. Besides all of this, what pair of camo pants shrinks slightly at one point, then expands to at least double the width they were before?

The red eyes are definitely a plus, though the top left one comes across as a car tail light just because of the angle of the street visible behind it. Having more of them is also good, too. Overall, I prefer the new one.

I actually kind of like the old version better. If I hadn’t been looking for Nightmare beasts of some sort since the sword started to glow, I don’t know that I’d have noticed them. Also, it makes my eyes hurt somehow. Just my two pence.

I do like the way you’re building the tension in this section, though.

I kind of hope you do redo it when the models are done. I actually couldn’t see the new monsters when I popped back in to check on the comments. I had to do a doubletake and a careful inspection of the last panel to see “Oh, there are dark things with red eyes now.” Maybe that’s just because I so clearly saw the beasties when they were just models…*shrugs* But dark on dark is hard to see…and their eyes are so small that the red didn’t immediately pop out as “OMG eyes of evil things!”

Definitely like the newer version better. Similar to Kingdom Hearts baddies, but with the same undefined forms as the ones from earlier in the story. Old ones look to much like Warcraft Demons, Hellboy, etc… that have defined features. I like the idea of nightmare realm characters with undefined features since children, with their own creativity and subconcious, end up fleshing out their own demons when dreaming, or not. Which only makes our ghosts, ghouls, and demons even more scary.

What bothers me more is the number of demons on the screen. Two is good. Though five is more dramatic and visual, it feels like overkill.

On another note. I dreamed about Dreamland last night. I actually pictured myself as having had created a costume to look like Paddington, and then one to look like Alexander, as if I was going to attend ComiCon in San Diego. This comic makes me feel like a kid again. 🙂 Thanks Scott.

Hey Scott just curious if you had found someone to do your background or not… If not you may want to take a look at a online community called second life… there are people there who could make yor cities easily for you… just a idea….

As for the monsters lurking for Dan or are they really after Alex? or both?? I think you got the idea across rather well that Dan is in trouble that is why his sharp pointy thing glows… I have to ask did you steal that idea from the Hobbit?? just curious lol and I doubt very seriously if JRR Tolkien will haunt you for it… But you never know…

I’m thinking that having the monsters hard to see is a benefit, since it will give Scott some flexibility for when the models are actually completed; no issues with mismatched monsters from one page to the next.

the dark shadowed creatures have a creepier look for sure.
May I just state an observation, the roof in the last panel seems to have lost it’s surface details. Maybe intended this way? hehe. just a heads up 🙂

Today’s page is still rendering as it’s the first time we’re on the streets of Seraphopolis.
Lot’s of bugs and rendering issues. Nothing I haven’t been through before.
But it is a bit time consuming.
I need to optimize things a bit. Large crowds and all.